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Biotin (Vitamin H) Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Biotin (vitamin H) deficiency in dogs and cats causes scaly dermatitis, hair loss, poor growth, and later weakness, diarrhea, and hind-limb paralysis. It is usually due to raw-egg white (avidin) or gut flora imbalance, and is corrected with dietary biotin.
Vitamin E Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Vitamin E deficiency in dogs and cats, often with selenium lack, causes skeletal muscle degeneration, reproductive failure, and in cats cerebellar ataxia, plus a fat-tissue inflammation known as yellow fat disease. It is corrected with dietary vitamin E and treatment of any gut disease.
Vitamin D Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Vitamin D deficiency in dogs and cats impairs calcium and phosphorus use, leading to rickets in the young and osteomalacia in adults, with bone pain, lameness, and deformities. It is prevented and treated by correcting diet, ensuring sunlight, and veterinary-directed vitamin D and calcium.
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) deficiency in dogs and cats impairs hemoglobin synthesis and nerve function, causing microcytic hypochromic anemia, poor appetite, skin inflammation, and seizures or ataxia. It is corrected with pyridoxine and a balanced diet.
Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) deficiency in dogs and cats causes poor appetite, stalled growth, and characteristic lesions of the skin, mouth, and eyes including dermatitis, cheilosis, and corneal clouding. It is corrected with dietary riboflavin and a balanced ration.
Thiamine (Vitamin B1) Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency in dogs and cats impairs glucose metabolism and especially nerve function, producing anorexia, weakness, and progressive neurological signs such as ataxia, seizures, and paralysis. It is caused by raw-fish diets, gut or liver disease, and high demand, and responds to thiamine replacement.
Vitamin A Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Vitamin A deficiency in dogs and cats results from a diet lacking preformed vitamin A and its precursors, impairing vision, skin, growth, and reproduction. It causes night blindness, dry eye, flaky skin, and in young animals bone deformity and paralysis, and is corrected by dietary vitamin A and treating any gut disease.
Hyperparathyroidism in Dogs and Cats
Hyperparathyroidism is excess parathyroid hormone from a tumor or dietary imbalance that disrupts calcium-phosphorus balance, causing poor appetite, vomiting, weakness, and urinary stones or kidney failure. Treatment targets the cause and corrects calcium.
Cervical Spondylomyelopathy (Wobbler Syndrome) in Dogs and Cats
Cervical spondylomyelopathy, also called Wobbler syndrome, is a progressive compression of the cervical spinal cord that causes weakening and incoordination of all four limbs. It is most often seen in young Great Danes and middle-aged to older Dobermans, and both conservative and surgical care may be needed.
Anemia in Dogs and Cats: Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention
Anemia is not a disease itself but a sign of many conditions in which red cells or hemoglobin fall short, depriving tissues of oxygen. Pets become weak, pale, and breathless, and treatment corrects the underlying cause while rebuilding red cells through diet, supplements, or transfusion.